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Any chance we could have the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin? It would be helpful to be able to see how many people are subscribing/reading via RSS, and what sort of traffic the feeds are generating to other parts of our web presence.
I think having a visual distinction between blogs and websites is a useful thing.
Probably just a personal preference, but the different blues between the background and the header bugs me
I would highly recommend Google Analytics because they store your data on a long term basis and you can compare historical data with current performance of your website. The only issue is that Google Analytics doesn’t pick up on all visistors and reports 10-15% less visitors.
i´m a mexican teacher and i´m trying to decide about use or not WordPress… maybe not, because dont have a lot of time to be programing pic by pic… and we have a lot of them. maybe later when i have more time or i can find a simple tool to do it fast and easy.
Love the upgrade. Had been haning out for a newer version. Makes it much easier to administer New for Commerce Students, particularly the ability to defer publication and unpublish items without deleting them.
Don’t know much about firestats but google analytics will have most of the tools you need to track the performance of the site. Especially visitors geographic location, visitor trending and whats really cool is that it will differentiate against total visitors and unique visitors. Best of all it’s free.
Google analytics has everything you need in a paid analytic software. The only down side is that you don’t know what google will do with the information.
Question about your themes – if a department wanted their own theme that you don’t offer, how can this be done? Can you set it up so that we have control over the look and feel of our blog?
We haven’t set blogs.unimelb up with the ability for blog owners to add or edit themes, however, we (site admin) can install themes and make them available to certain blogs. For the greatest compatibility, themes should be based on the same ‘Sandbox’ framework and use CSS to control the look and feel.
Managing more variations increases the complexity of managing and maintaining the blogs site, so we do charge for design/build/maintenance as appropriate, the fact sheet on this page gives an outline of what’s available and what to expect http://www.web.unimelb.edu.au/tools/blogs
I second the request for FeedSmith. Google Analytics is great, and we’re using it successfully at http://bit.ly/3aXUt. Nonetheless, this doesn’t appear to track RSS hits, which I believe constitute the majority of our blog traffic.
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Any chance we could have the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin? It would be helpful to be able to see how many people are subscribing/reading via RSS, and what sort of traffic the feeds are generating to other parts of our web presence.
PS: Our Google Analytics monitoring is working nicely — thanks for the tip about using a widget as an SSI to contain the javascript code
I think having a visual distinction between blogs and websites is a useful thing.
Probably just a personal preference, but the different blues between the background and the header bugs me
Like mlr, could we have the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin also? Would love to see how many
are reading/subscribing, thanks.
I would highly recommend Google Analytics because they store your data on a long term basis and you can compare historical data with current performance of your website. The only issue is that Google Analytics doesn’t pick up on all visistors and reports 10-15% less visitors.
Yes, google analytics is one of the best tracking tools on the market.
there are some problems but its the best
i´m a mexican teacher and i´m trying to decide about use or not WordPress… maybe not, because dont have a lot of time to be programing pic by pic… and we have a lot of them. maybe later when i have more time or i can find a simple tool to do it fast and easy.
Love the upgrade. Had been haning out for a newer version. Makes it much easier to administer New for Commerce Students, particularly the ability to defer publication and unpublish items without deleting them.
Don’t know much about firestats but google analytics will have most of the tools you need to track the performance of the site. Especially visitors geographic location, visitor trending and whats really cool is that it will differentiate against total visitors and unique visitors. Best of all it’s free.
Google analytics has everything you need in a paid analytic software. The only down side is that you don’t know what google will do with the information.
Thanks! Lightbox is much better than Greybox.
Question about your themes – if a department wanted their own theme that you don’t offer, how can this be done? Can you set it up so that we have control over the look and feel of our blog?
We haven’t set blogs.unimelb up with the ability for blog owners to add or edit themes, however, we (site admin) can install themes and make them available to certain blogs. For the greatest compatibility, themes should be based on the same ‘Sandbox’ framework and use CSS to control the look and feel.
Managing more variations increases the complexity of managing and maintaining the blogs site, so we do charge for design/build/maintenance as appropriate, the fact sheet on this page gives an outline of what’s available and what to expect http://www.web.unimelb.edu.au/tools/blogs
Cool! I think UniMelbourne is the first uni in OZ to have wordpress blogs.
wp-stat is another great tool to gather your Blog statistics. It’s compatible with the latest release (2.8.2) of wordpress
I second the request for FeedSmith. Google Analytics is great, and we’re using it successfully at http://bit.ly/3aXUt. Nonetheless, this doesn’t appear to track RSS hits, which I believe constitute the majority of our blog traffic.
useful…thanks for this information !:)